I pulled over north of OKC.
There was just something in the air, like a blood memory
Blowing across the Osage on a prairie wind,
Carrying me back to some place I ain't never been
In my time, no in my time.
I saw the old dreams in ashes lie
In a circle around my life, just waiting to fly,
But there's still a fire in my heart, and I feel home
For the first time.
I knew an old man, was born in Wichita.
He worked in the black gold, and he fought in the war.
Our war was cold so we made our own,
And it's over now, but it ain't never won.
It's gonna take a new dream to shake the dust
When the body's fallow, and the spirit's rust.
There's still a fire in my heart, and I'm coming home for another try
In Oklahoma, in Oklahoma.
All that young direction, just like smoke in the wind,
Is gathering up in a heaven that you once placed your hopes in.
There's a storm coming, yeah that cloud is gonna fall
And sow the fields with ashes – you know everything that passes
Will come again.
And ain't it just like old Wichita's advice?
It never really sticks but after once or twice.
For all your driving, you're gonna lose that road,
But that don't matter none when you finally decide to step in from the cold.
So give me a new dream, the old dream is dust.
Fire up the old rig, and damn the rust.
Stoke the fires in your hearts, I'm coming home for another try
In Oklahoma, in Oklahoma, in Oklahoma.
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